Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration

Thomas Doherty

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Paper, 440 pages, 60 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14359-2
$25.00 / £17.50

October, 2007
Cloth, 440 pages, 60 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14358-5
$35.00 / £24.00

Opening Credits

Prologue: Hollywood, 1954

1 The Victorian Irishman

2 Bluenoses Against the Screen

3 Hollywood Shot to Pieces

4 The Breen Office

5 Decoding Classical Hollywood Cinema

6 Confessional

7 Intermission at RKO

8 At War with the Breen Office

9 In His Sacerdotalism

10 “Our Semitic Brethren”

11 Social Problems, Existential Dilemmas and Outsized Anatomies

12 Invasion of the Art Films

13 Amending the Ten Commandments

14 Not the Breen Office

15 Final Cut: Joseph I. Breen and the Auteur Theory

Appendix: The Production Code

Notes

Film Index

Index

Related Subjects

• American History
• Film
• Popular Culture

About the Author

Thomas Doherty is professor of American studies at Brandeis University. He serves on the editorial board of Cineaste and is the author of Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture; Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934; Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II; and Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s.

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